As my plane left Dubai for Kiev, I began browsing through an endless pile of newspapers and magazines: from the New York Times to the Economist, from the Times to several Gulf-based and Turkish periodicals, as well as Spanish and German ones.

The consensus on Putin being a villain was absolute. There were
no dissident voices, but also, not surprisingly, no Russian
intellectual voices. There were absolutely no editorials written
by Russians attacking the Western destabilization of Ukraine and
the destruction of its democratically elected government.

It was also shocking how the Arabic and Turkish press was
translating and reprinting all that appeared in the West.

There were no clear, simple and logical explanations of what
actually happened in Ukraine recently.

That is, that the West, particularly the greedy and desperate EU,
wanted to get its hands on the tremendous natural resources of
the Ukraine, on its heavy industry and cheap but highly-educated
work force. They offered a deal. A very bad deal, under which,
European companies would be allowed to plunder the country, but
Ukrainian people would not be even allowed to enter the EU, let
alone seek employment there.

The elected government rejected such farce. The West accelerated
its support to ‘the opposition’, which included several
clearly gangster forces, full of ultra-nationalists and Nazis.
The legitimate government was overthrown. Crimea decided to leave
such an illegitimate entity. People voted, democratically. Russia
simply accepted the outcome.

The West began crying murder, simply because, for once, it was
not allowed to rob, to loot, what it wanted. It is not used to
such resistance – for centuries it has been accustomed to taking,
to raping and to fleecing anything it fancies.

In the meantime, the fascist pro-Western military regime in Egypt
(a regime that is actually financed by the US) sentenced 529
people to death, mostly those belonging to the Muslim
Brotherhood, which was overthrown last summer.

There was strong language from the West, but no condemnation.
Fascist, Pinochet-style Egypt is a close Western ally.

Another ally, Indonesia, a miserable failed state plundered by
multinationals, with many indicators mirroring sub-Saharan
Africa, has once again been poisoning the entire region, with
smoke coming from its burning forest-fires: proof of a
gangster-run economy. Fires are destroying forests and giving way
to palm oil plantations. Again no condemnation. Not even an
alarm.

Like Rwanda and Uganda, which are by now responsible for between
6 and 10 million lost lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo
(DRC). There, the killing is done on behalf of Western companies
and governments, so it should not be discussed.

The same could be said about the present occupation of Southern
Somalia by Kenyan forces, an invasion that was triggered on a
ridiculous, pre-fabricated platform.

Fellow looters

The destruction of entire nations, as well as the obliteration of
the environment, is not to be noticed by a fellow looter if
‘a friend’ does it.

In our recent book, ‘On Western Terrorism – From Hiroshima to
Drone Warfare’, my friend and mentor Noam Chomsky clarified
how the West reserves the right to ruin, and even liquidate,
countries that it considers uncooperative, and how it is done
with absolute impunity, even with legal support.

"Take the invasion of Iraq - nothing can be discussed or
potentially regarded as criminal. In fact there is a legal
reason for that, which is not too well-known. The United States
is self-immunized from any prosecution. When the US joined the
World Court in 1946, the US basically initiated the modern
International Court of Justice, which it joined but with the
reservation that the US cannot be judged by any international
treaty - meaning the UN charter, the charter of the
Organization of American States, the Geneva Conventions. The US
is self-immunized from any trial on those issues. And the Court
has accepted that. So, for example, when Nicaragua brought a
case against the United States at the World Court for the
terrorist attacks against Nicaragua, most of the case was
thrown out because it invoked the charter of the Organization
of American States, which bars interventions strongly, and the
US is not subject to that and the Court accepted it."

"In fact the same happened, interestingly, at the trial
where Yugoslavia brought a case against NATO for its being
bombed, to the International Court of Justice, I think, and the
United States excluded itself from the case and the Tribunal
agreed because one of the charges mentioned was that it was a
genocide, and when the United States signed the Genocide
Convention after 40 years, it had a reservation saying it was
‘inapplicable to the United States’, and so therefore the Court
rightly excused the United States from prosecution. There
literally are legal barriers established just in case anyone
dares to try to bring some charge against the powerful. I am
sure you recall when the Rome Treaty was signed, and the
International Criminal Court was established, the US refused to
participate… but then it was more than that. The Congress
passed legislation, which the Bush Administration happily
signed, which granted the White House authority to invade The
Hague by force, in case any American was brought there. In
Europe it is sometimes called the Netherlands Invasion Act.
Well, that was passed here enthusiastically, so the
self-immunization is at many levels. One is the impossibility
to perceive, such as when you deny what happened to the
indigenous population in the United States, when you just can’t
see it even if it is in front of your eyes. The other is that
it’s actually fortified by legislation.”

Is such an arrangement outrageous and totally racist? It is, but
it appears that most Western intellectuals and journalists are so
disciplined, brainwashed or cowardly, that they hardly notice.

David Castle, the senior commissioning editor of Pluto Publishing
House in London is clearly aware of the game the Western mass
media is playing. Pluto is one of the major opposition publishing
houses in English language.

“Most people in Britain understand international politics
through television news and mainstream newspapers. Both are
heavily skewed towards domestic issues and so international
coverage is scanty. Major conflicts, such as in the Democratic
Republic of Congo, barely get reported at all. Also, most of the
press is notoriously right-wing – far to the right of the people
as a whole, and often owned by media moguls like Rupert Murdoch,
who aggressively pursue a right-wing agenda through their
publications. The state-owned BBC is committed to presenting a
‘balanced’ view of political issues, but its concept of balance
is to present the views of both major British political parties.
When they agree on an issue such as Ukraine, you can fail to find
any dissenting voices,” David told me about this issue.

International gangsterism

The question is where this revisionism will take the planet? Is
the West really ready to face Russia and China, two major powers,
just to secure fully its dictatorial role over the world? Is its
greed, is its insane Protestant desire to control and rule, truly
so overwhelming?

It is all resembling, increasingly, gangsterism, not an
international consensus.

Christopher Black, a leading international criminal lawyer based
in Toronto, clearly defines the possible endgame, for this
report: “The Ukraine is the latest theatre of operations in
the world war that erupted with the collapse of the Soviet Union
and the drive thereafter by the West to dominate world resources
and markets. The first theaters of operation in this global war
were Africa and Yugoslavia. In Africa, America ejected France
from Central Africa and turned Rwanda into a military state used
to maintain a state of deadly chaos in the Great Lakes region of
Africa.”

The destruction of Yugoslavia during the same period culminated
in the final brutal NATO attack of 1999 and the overthrow of
Milosevic in 2001, Black says. In rapid succession the NATO
states attacked Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, then Libya and Syria.
The ultimate target of these wars is, of course, Russia and its
vast resources, and those countries such as China, Iran, and of
Latin America that insist on maintaining their independence and
sovereignty.

“But these wars cannot be conducted without propaganda, and
as the wars themselves are total wars - that is, wars targeting
civilians as well as military forces - so the propaganda
techniques used are total, using every aspect of communication
and penetrating all levels of society. Important elements of this
propaganda are the various war crimes tribunals whose primary
function is the dissemination of false histories of the wars
concerned, and criminalization of those who resist,” Black
told me.

Christopher Black says that we see this technique used in Ukraine
with the absurd call by the Kiev junta to have President
Yanukovich charged by the International Criminal Court for crimes
probably committed by members of that junta.

Legendary radio host Dr. Kevin Barrett, based in the US,
described the situation in a recent article which made waves all
over the world. It is called ‘USA declares war on
democracy’.

“In Ukraine, Venezuela, and Thailand, as in Syria and Egypt
before them, the banksters are adding violence to their ‘color
revolution’ game plan for destroying democracy. This may seem
incongruous, since the NWO [New World Order] intellectual hired
gun Gene Sharp, the so-called ‘Machiavelli of non-violence’,
designed the original color revolutions as purportedly peaceful
and democratic uprisings. But Sharp's so-called color
revolutions, beginning with Georgia's ‘Rose Revolution’ of 2003
and Ukraine's ‘Orange Revolution’ of 2004, were never genuine
people's revolutions. They were bankster takeover attempts from
the beginning. George Soros would funnel Rothschild money to
ambitious, power-hungry apparatchiks, who would inundate their
target countries with propaganda and hire rent-a-mobs to dress in
a particular color and make a spectacle of themselves in a public
square, in the hope of duping naive young people into joining the
‘revolution’ – whose real goal is always to install a NWO puppet
leader,” Barrett wrote.

But Barrett, like myself, is one of those outraged voices
surrounded by a cacophony of the propaganda dissonance.

While Noam Chomsky, Christopher Black, Kevin Barrett, David
Castle and so many other determined free thinkers are constantly
defining reality as well as the horror of what may yet come, it
appears that the great majority of the Western public is
thoroughly confused by, and even shows hostility towards, the
alternative voices.

Dmitry Kolesnik, a brave Ukrainian journalist, my translator and
co-editor on the site of Ukrainian leftists, Liva.com.ua, put
everything into context.

“What’s most remarkable in the Western coverage of Ukrainian
turmoil? It’s the almost total ignoring or even whitewashing of
those far-right and open Nazi paramilitary forces that played the
leading role in the recent coup. There were only some rare
reports in mainstream media that highlighted the Nazi
paramilitaries in Ukraine,” Kolesnik said.

What he is saying could be applied across Zimbabwe, South Africa,
Egypt, Bahrain, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador,
Eritrea, North Korea, Vietnam, and dozens of other places
worldwide. Kolesnik continued that as usual the issue of the
leading role of the far-right is dismissed as ‘Putin’s
propaganda’. So the media willingly turns a blind eye to
everything that Putin claims.

“If [Putin] claimed that the Earth is round, the Western
media would most likely denounce it as a ‘propagandist’
statement. And Putin seems to understand it quite well, but the
Western media denouncing the evident facts reveal their total
servility,” Kolesnik said.

He also describes a typical message in online groups of the
‘Euromaidan’ movement and the network of Nazi ‘Right
Sector’ units.

“As far as I follow some groups, I can notice that sometimes
they mobilize their supporters on a certain day in a certain
place so as to provide the picture needed: ‘Western journalists
are coming, so we have to be in the square at… and show them our
democratic intentions. Please, no Nazi salutes and anti-Semitic
slogans at this time, as journalists will be there. And we can
see how some mainstream media makes ‘professional’ reports,”
he asserts.

Kolesnik says that when Nazi paramilitaries attack the meetings
of anti-fascist forces, the rallies of the left forces, or
pro-Russian protesters, the Western media never show it. But when
an attack of Nazis is being kicked off, they willingly present it
as ‘brutality against pro-democracy protesters’. Media
dubs the unelected Ukrainian regime as ‘legitimate’ and
tries not to notice its policy directed to the unleashing of a
civil war or the ethnic cleansing of the country.

“Actually, we see in media coverage an example of a cynical
info-war, when even Nazi thugs are being whitewashed whatever
they do. Thus, we see in Ukraine a coordinated coalition of
Nazis, neoliberals, some NGOs and mainstream media – all working
hand in hand for the brutal demolition of the country,” he
says.

I am finishing this report as my flight begins its descent to
Kiev International Airport. I create a nice, neat folder that
consists of several international periodicals. I am aware that
soon, very soon, the reality will hit me in the face,
metaphorically as well as in the real sense.

Everything will be in reverse of what is so thoughtfully written
in those well-edited and designed propaganda sheets.

I look at the cover of the Economist and at the tasteless
caricature of a half-naked President Putin on a heavily-armed
tank. It reads ‘The New World Order’.

But it is not yet here, this New World Order. It is still the
same nightmare of some dozen or so extremely arrogant, brutal and
canny Western nations, tormenting the world with impunity. And it
is done, they claim, in order to ‘save it’, to make it
pure and happy, as was done for centuries by fanatical and cruel
religions.

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